SHIFTING TIMBER

As vocations go, few come more dangerous, taxing, multi-skilled and testosterone-fuelled than that of the lumberjack. Now the best are going pro. MH travelled to the Stihl Timbersports 2016 World Championship in Stuttgart to meet a new breed of athlete coming out of the woodwork

HE CAME, HE SAWED... 01\ Canadian lumberjack Stirling Hart wields his customised racing saw to slice through a 46cm trunk in the day’s final event, hot-saw racing